Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four teen-age Watertown boys eventually confessed to the politically unsubsidized tomato-tossing, but by that time Averell Harriman had again enraged Ives. To avoid conflict with the Jewish holidays, New York's registration had been split into two periods. This device has been employed by Democratic state administrations in the past, but Harriman read into it a diabolical scheme this year to confuse the voters and keep registration down. Roared Irving Ives: "These Tammany-picked candidates, to hide their ignorance of state affairs, have fallen back on the last resource of sordid politics . . . This year they...
Wars would be cheaper if we bred soldiers, didn't pay them, and exterminated the "veterans" after each conflict. Then you Poor Foolish Civilians could keep all the money...
...bases. The Reds would then have to retaliate by sending their own planes to Formosa to bomb the Nationalist bases. This the Communists could not do without "running over"; the U.S. Seventh Fleet and its aircraft. In other words, no Communist could fly over Quemoy without risking direct conflict with...
Handsome David McDonald, president of the C.I.O. United Steelworkers, once studied the theatrical arts. An amateur playwright, he put on a suspenseful production last week at the union's Atlantic City convention. McDonald, who greatly dislikes C.I.O. President Walter Reuther, had set the stage for conflict. He erased mention of the C.I.O. from his union contracts this year and even told newsmen not to describe the Steelworkers as C.I.O. He still paid $100,000 monthly dues to the C.I.O. for his 1,200,000 members (nearly one-fourth of the national C.I.O.'s revenues and strength...
...after Glasser's testimony, Lewis Webster Jones, president of the University, termed his actions "clearly in conflict with the policies of the University" and suspended him with pay, pending an investigation of the case by a special faculty committee and by the board of trustees...